The festival’s Pop-up Exhibitions brought together two contributions that engage with rivers in very different settings. One focuses on the everyday relations along the Este River in northern Germany, while the other works between the Magdalena and the Spree. Together, they offer two distinct ways of looking at how people and waterways shape each other.

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Kunstkollektiv FLUNST focused on the river landscapes of the Altes Land region in Lower Saxony, especially the Elbe, Este and Lühe. At the festival, they presented outcomes from their recent project FLUNSTWERKE – Wassergeschichten im Dialog, funded by the TD Labs of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) and coordinated by Dr. Rossella Alba. The project brought together a collection of stories about human and more-than-human life with water along the Este River. 

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Through performative interviews, Abraso colectivo from Colombia, German artists, and international scientists of IRI THESys invited a continuous reflection on rivers and sediments. Over the past months, this temporary, transient and transdisciplinary collective has navigated between the Magdelena and Spree rivers. Across countries, languages, and disciplines, through movement, film, and sound, questioning where these rivers flow, where they spring and end.Remapping riverscapes of Europe and Latin America, this interactive action aimed to (dis)orient the audience while collecting fragments of bodies of water and their imaginaries. They aimed to further unsettle, re-scale and re-navigate our understandings of these rivers.